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English actor Ben Barnes landed in hot water when he abruptly departed a London stage production of "The History Boys" in 2007 to take a role in a Disney film shooting in New Zealand. The decision may...
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If you need someone to teach you how to fight mythical beings, why not get Jeff Bridges? That's exactly what our protagonist does in the trailer for Seventh Son, based on The Wardstone Chronicles series by Joseph Delaney.
In the movie, Tom Ward (Ben Barnes) is an apprentice to John Gregory (Bridges), a Spook who fights dark creatures. Together they attempt to take down Mother Malkin (Julianne Moore), an evil witch who has it out for humans. Along the way, Tom has to battle all kinds of beasts, including dragons, a cyclops, and some guy with four arms. But he also gets to hook up with another not-so-evil witch, so that's a plus. Seventh Son is in theaters on Jan 17, 2014.
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Looks like Assistant District Attorney Gabe Lowen (Sendhil Ramamurthy) has a few more skeletons in his closet than he revealed to Catherine (Kristin Kreuk). At the end of last week’s Beauty and the Beast, Gabe was excited to learn that the vigilante killer was still alive and out there… and his excitement caused his eyes to glow a telling gold – just like Vincent’s (Jay Ryan) when he beasts out!
The reveal of Gabe’s true past was shocking, both to viewers and Ramamurthy himself. "When I signed up for the show I had no idea that Gabe was a beast. Everybody else did, though!" Ramamurthy tells Hollywood.com. "The entire cast knew, but when I turned up on set, Kristin was the one who told me inadvertently. She was like, 'I wonder when Gabe Beast shows up?' I was like, 'What?' And she was like, 'They’re making you a beast! You know that right?'"
Ramamurthy may not have known in the beginning, but he’s excited for fans to be in on the secret now — especially since there are still plenty more secrets to reveal. "By the end of this episode you’ll find out what the circumstances are surrounding what he has to do," Ramamurthy teases. "We’ve established that he’s slowly deteriorating and dying, basically. He thinks that Vincent can help him in some way and he’s either going to be a friend or a foe."
Finding the vigilante has always been Gabe’s motivation, and though we previously assumed it was because he wanted to find justice, we now know the real reason why Gabe was hunting Vincent. "That’s why he shows up at the precinct in the first place. The whole reason he ended up getting transferred there was because he wanted to be in that precinct where all of these vigilante murders were happening," Ramamurthy explains. "It’s his instinct that they’re being done by another beast. But Vincent thinks that he’s the only one up until this episode. The moment where they meet, Gabe is a beast and Vincent is human. So it’s a huge moment for Vincent to see Gabe like that because he really didn’t think that there was anybody else out there like him."
Besides the fact that they share the same beastly nature thanks to Muirfield, what exactly does Gabe want with Vincent? "That’s what the next episode is all about: I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine. We don’t have to be enemies," Ramamurthy reveals. "In a perfect world, Gabe would love for this to happen: he finds Vincent and they find a way to stabilize each other’s DNA. We’ve established that Gabe can take these pills that keep him normal, so maybe Vincent can take the pills too, or so that’s what Cat hopes."
When Catherine finds out Gabe has a way to live a normal life despite his beastliness, it gives her hope for her future with Vincent… especially considering the romantic issues they run into in "Date Night." Without spoiling the episode, let’s just say that Cat finds herself in a normal situation that happens in normal relationships, but thanks to Vincent’s condition, it has dire consequences. Gabe represents a possible solution to her problems. "Maybe they can have this normal life that they’ve dreamt about," Ramamurthy says. "Catherine and Vincent sailing off into the sunset and being happy and together as two human beings, not a beast and a human being. Let’s see if that actually happens."
Another storyline Ramamurthy is excited for fans to see play out is that of Gabe’s mysterious girlfriend, Tyler (One Tree Hill’s Shantel VanSanten). "Gabe has been experimented on since he was a child. He knows that other people have been experimented on, and his own girlfriend is one of the experiments," Ramamurthy reveals. "You get some nice tidbits in this episode and in the finale about Tyler. People will come to know about her. People will meet her. Our regular characters, some of them will meet her. And there’s some pretty cool stuff that happens in respect to that."
Beauty and the Beast airs Thursdays at 9 PM ET/PT on The CW.
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Guess there isn’t a South Park-style rivalry between Family Guy and The Simpsons after all. Seth MacFarlane, creator, executive producer and voice actor of Family Guy, American Dad and The Cleveland Show, will lend his voice to his network-mates The Simpsons for the show's season finale.
MacFarlane voices a charming married man whom Marge (Julie Kavner) inadvertently meets on a swingers’ website and – obviously – shenanigans ensue. Mistaking a swinging Ashley Madison-type website for a Dolly Madison-type cupcake site, Ben (MacFarlane) pursues Marge after they learn they share a love for a Downton Abbey-type TV series, Upton Rectory.
Also in the season finale, Homer (Dan Castellaneta), Moe (Hank Azaria), Lenny (Harry Shearer) and Carl (Azaria) win $200,000 in the Springfield Lottery, but when Carl takes off to Iceland – his homeland – with all the winnings, the guys embark on a Nordic adventure to get the cash back.
The hourlong season finale airs Sunday, May 19 at 8 PM ET/PT on FOX.
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Divergent is still a year away from hitting the big screen, but Summit Entertainment is so sure its adaptation of Veronica Roth's bestselling YA series will be a success that it's already begun work on the sequel. Insurgent, the second installment in the series, is officially a go with Jane Got a Gun's Brian Duffield writing the script, Deadline reports.
Without giving too much of Divergent's twists and spoilers away, Insurgent continues the journey of Tris Prior (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) as war now looms between the factions (the series is set in a dystopian future where society divides people into five factions based on personality). As Tris and her friends escape to safety, sides will be chosen, secrets will emerge, old faces will resurface, and Tris will risk everything — despite Four's insistance to take better care of herself— as she struggles to harness her incredible power as a "divergent." Kate Winslet will also return to star as villain Jeanine Matthews, the leader of the Erudite faction.
Divergent is currently in production with Neil Burger directing. The film is scheduled to hit theaters March 21, 2014.
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If you've been keeping up with The Office's ninth and final season, here's some news guaranteed to make you smile: NBC just announced that an hour-long retrospective episode will air before the series finale. Get ready to relive the hilarity, awkwardness, and heartwarming stories from the past almost-decade!
The special episode will offer a look back at the past nine seasons, including actor auditions back when the show was first being cast, favorite moments, a behind-the-scenes sneak peak of the finale, as well as an emotional farewell to the characters of The Office. The retrospective will feature interviews with writers, producers, and actors, including executive producers Greg Daniels, Paul Lieberstein and Ben Silverman, and actors John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling, Ed Helms, Angela Kinsey, Craig Robinson, Oscar Nunez and B.J. Novak.
The hour-long series finale will air immediately following the retrospective, and boasts an impressive lineup of guest stars including Kaling, Novak, Rachael Harris, Dakota Johnson, Joan Cusack, Ed Begley Jr., Malcolm Barrett, Matt Jones, Andy Buckley, Mike Schur, and Bobby Ray Shafer. The episode takes place months after the airing of the documentary, and the workers of Dunder Mifflin past and present gather for a wedding and a final round of interviews. "Mysteries are solved, hatchets are buried, pranks are prunked," promises the episode description.
Who will be saying "I do?" Will Jim and Pam finally get their happily ever after? Will Steve Carrell make a cameo? Watch the retrospective and series finale to find out, when both air on Thursday, May 16, from 8-10 PM ET/PT on NBC.
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It's impossible to write about The Big Wedding without damning it with faint praise. It has the sort of cast that once would have once been a selling point but is now cause for skepticism, and its sprawling plot is haphazard at best. It's worth a chuckle or two, but nothing happens that you couldn't guess from sitting through the first half hour. It's probably better than writer/director Justin Zackham's script for The Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman, but you'd have to find someone who actually saw that saccharine mess to know.
Diane Keaton and Robert De Niro star as Ellie and Don Griffin, a divorced couple whose adopted son is getting married. Don is shacked up with Ellie's former best friend Bebe, played by Susan Sarandon, who's become a close mother figure to the grown Griffin brood. Unfortunately for Bebe, the groom-to-be Alejandro (Ben Barnes, wearing a lot of bronzer) never told his Catholic mother back in Colombia that his parents are divorced, and since she's on her way to the nuptials, he asks Ellie and Don to pretend to still be married. Why anyone goes along with this is beyond logic — but logic isn't important here. What is important is that there are plenty of awkward sexual situations (De Niro listing euphuisms for cunnilingus!), bodily functions (De Niro getting vomited on!), and slapstick (De Niro being punched in the face!).
The rest of the plot is rather exhausting to get into and plays on all sorts of icky cultural stereotypes. Alejandro's biological sister Nuria (Ana Ayora) is a gorgeous, hypersexual Latina who doesn't realize she should make men work for it until Ellie tells her about American woman's mores and some sort of possibly feminist jibber-jabber. (If Zackham read any of the hand-wringing essays or books on hook-up culture, he'd realize this is complete BS.) Alejandro's mom doesn't speak English and mostly clutches her rosary while looking on disapprovingly. Topher Grace appears as Alejandro's brother, a doctor who decided at 15 that he'd stay a virgin until he fell in love, an idea that he tosses out as soon as Nuria sheds her clothes to go for a dip in their pond. Katherine Heigl is yet another sibling with problems; she left her husband because they couldn't get pregnant, but now she's upset because he hasn't tried to get in touch with her even though she left him. Amanda Seyfried is Alejandro's fiancée; her parents are WASP-y racists who are apparently horrified that their daughter is marrying someone wearing a lot of bronzer. There's some kerfuffle about Catholicism, so they've hauled in Robin Williams to appear as a priest; he actually plays it pretty straight, which is probably for the best. The themes are: double standards, fear of revealing our true selves to the ones we love, and uproarious revelations. Except not that uproarious.
Based on the French film Mon frère se marie, The Big Wedding is ultimately as forgettable as its generic title. Zackham relies on 360 degree pans and treacly music to try and rouse the audience to care, but that's no replacement for a decent script. The only thing that sticks is De Niro's saucy satyr, which is a refreshing change from his more recent films. Keaton and Sarandon are a pleasing pair, and they deserve not only much better than this, but their own movie about cool female friends in their fifties. In fact, if everything about the wedding was scrapped and this was rewritten as a dramedy about the complicated relationship between these three, you might have an interesting movie.
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Going weeks at a time without Beauty and the Beast is hard enough. But when we’re left with a cliffhanger as juicy as Evan witnessing Cat kissing Vincent, then Vincent jumping off her roof, revealing himself to be the cross-species DNA beast killer the police have been searching for? The wait is downright torturous!
Good news for all BATB fans: the drama returns tonight with an all-new episode, "Heart of Darkness," and according to executive producer Jennifer Levin, we won’t be left hanging much longer. "Evan goes straight to Muirfield and lets them know, 'I know where this guy is,'" Levin reveals to Hollywood.com. "He exposes Vincent right away."
But the strange thing is that Evan doesn’t expose Vincent for malicious reasons. "He hopes to protect Cat," Levin says. "He obviously knows that Catherine is in love with this guy but he thinks that [Vincent] is a force of evil. And he also hopes to get Cat. He’s jealous."
We wouldn’t hold our breath for a relationship with Cat if we were Evan, however: Cat won’t be feeling too warm towards her work friend after his actions lead to Muirfield successfully capturing Vincent. That’s right, we said capture — not kill. Vincent’s life won’t be in danger, contrary to what he and Cat have always thought. "There’s more that they can learn from him by studying him, since he survived out there for a long time," Levin explains. "We get to see inside Muirfield. We get to learn about what they’re up to, and [we learn] that they’re active... It’s not just about cleaning up the past. So perhaps Vincent could help them in their active endeavors."
We can’t reveal what those active endeavors are (or else the powers-that-be at The CW would transform into a beast of their own and come after us!), but believe us when we say that you won’t see this twist coming. We can tell you that you’ll find out this shocking secret before the finale, and that plot is what will drive the story going forward (hopefully into Season 2, if BATB gets a renewal).
If that was too vague for you, here’s something scoop-worthy that is more definitive: there may be redemption in store for Evan, even after his big mistake tonight leads Muirfield to Vincent. "He is going to have to do something drastic when he realizes that maybe that was the wrong move," Levin says.
One character who has already been redeemed is Tess, now that she knows the truth about Vincent. "Tess and Cat are at a good spot moving forward," Levin says. "Tess now knows why and understands why Cat has done what she’s done. Now Tess is going to be brought in to help with whatever Vincent and Cat need to deal with." That’s right: Tess is now a part of Team Beast!
Though her relationship with Cat is on good terms, Tess’s relationship with Joe is another story. Her secret love tryst with her boss is about to hit some bumpy road. "They’re going to have to make a choice soon. He’s her superior and they’re having a relationship," Levin reveals. "At some point in the next couple of episodes someone catches wind of it, so they have a big choice to make. Is she going to stay there, is she going to leave, what are they going to do? How are they going to deal with this?"
Make sure you tune in tonight to watch all the drama unfold when BATB airs at 9 PM ET/PT on The CW.
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The cast of YA's newest hot movie adaptation, Divergent, is almost in place. After confirming Kate Winslet's villainous and Theo James' heartthrob-worthy roles, Summit Entertainment announced that Ben Lloyd-Hughes, Ben Lamb, and Christian Madsen have just joined highly anticipated sci-fi movie as Dauntless transfers Will, Edward, and Al, respectively.
Based on Veronica Roth's best-selling YA novel, the movie is set in a dystopian future where society divides people into five factions based on personality. Shailene Woodley plays the young protagonist Beatrice "Tris" Prior, who is classified a "divergent," a rare, dangerous classification, and is told she will never fit into any specific group. She leaves her family back in the Abnegation (selfless) faction to join the Dauntless (bravery) faction, and uncovers a conspiracy to destroy all "divergents" and start a war between factions. She must find out why she and others like her are considered so dangerous before it's too late.
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Will (Lloyd-Hughes, pictured above) becomes one of Tris' closest friends during their Dauntless initiation, and was a transfer from the Erudite (knowledge) faction. His friendship and later his actions affect Tris in major ways. Edward (Lamb) has a tough time going through the Dauntless initiation and his situation introduces the audience to a different and secret part of society. Al (Madsen) is a Candor (honesty) transfer, and has an unrequited crush on Tris.
Starring Woodley and James, these three new faces join already confirmed cast members Winslet, Jai Courtney, Zoë Kravitz, Ansel Elgort and Maggie Q. Directed by Neil Burger, the film commences principal photography this April in Chicago.
Divergent hits theaters March 21, 2014.
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If the thought of Charlie Sheen in bed with Lindsay Lohan doesn’t make you gag – or worse, laugh – then congratulations, you are the only one! That also means you’re the only person excited for Scary Movie 5, which finds Sheen and Lohan in the aforementioned bed together before a ghost/demon wreaks more havoc than Sheen on a Tiger Blood-fueled bender.
The newest trailer for the fifth installment of the Scary Movie spoofing franchise just hit the web, and along with some Sheen/Lohan loving, we also get a glimpse of a contortionist Honey Boo Boo, a Snoop Dogg (sorry, Snoop Lion) crotch kick, and a con man posing as a demon psychic.
Spoofing Paranormal Activity and Mama, a happily-married couple begins to experience some unusual activity after bringing their newborn son home from the hospital. With the help of home-surveillance cameras and a team of experts, they learn they're being stalked by a nefarious demon and must learn how to get rid of it before it’s too late.
Watch the new trailer below:
Ashley Tisdale, Terry Crews, Kate Walsh, Jerry O’Connell, Heather Locklear, Molly Shannon, Chris Elliot, Ben Cornish, Mike Tyson, Simon Rex, Jasmine Guy, Kendra Wilkinson, and Audrina Patridge round out the cast. It’s interesting to note that Scary Movie 5 is the only film in the entire franchise that does not feature any main characters from the previous films (maybe because they knew it was time to bail…).
Scary Movie 5 hits theaters April 12.
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The big moment has finally arrived on tonight's Nikita: Nikita (Maggie Q) and Amanda (Melinda Clarke) in the same room, together for the first time since Nikita was forced to chop off Michael’s (Shane West) hand to save his life as a result of Amanda’s actions. This entire season has centered around the cat and mouse game Amanda has played with Nikita and Division, and last week featured her betrayal of longtime love and ally Ari Tasarov (Peter Outerbridge). In tonight's can't-miss episode, "Reunion," we'll watch Amanda attempt to kidnap Ari’s son Stefan to use him as leverage. But since he is still in Division’s protective custody, Ari begs Nikita for help. However, Stefan’s bodyguard manages to capture both Nikita and Amanda, and the two must work together to escape.
Whoa, Amanda and Nikita have to work together? We told you tonight’s episode is a can’t-miss! With both the big bad of the season and our heroine captured — plus severely raised stakes — don’t expect all of your favorites to make it out of this season alive. Dillon Casey, the man behind the Navy SEAL-turned-Division agent Sean Pierce, warned Hollywood.com that there will be some major casualties. "A lot of bodies are going to start hitting the floor," Casey reveals. "Nobody is safe."
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We've always known that Nikita is a high-stakes show, with characters dying all the time. But will one of our favorites be among the casualties? "I can’t tell you who is dying, but I can tell you that at least two very important people will be dead by the end of this season," Casey says. How’s that for a reveal? Time to start the speculation: who isn’t going to make it out of this season alive? We hope it’s Amanda, but something tells us we’re going to be shedding some tears for someone on the good side of Division...
Casey also mapped out the plan for the rest of the season: the focus is now firmly on taking down Amanda before she takes down Division. "The Dirty 30 has been put on ice for a while, because Amanda’s taking stronger action against Division," Casey says. "She has risen up as the main villain that they have to face now, and she wants to take down Division — take down Nikita — [using] whatever means necessary. She is the number one person they have to worry about."
And even though Division has a lot of expensive technology and resources behind them, it will take a lot more to defeat the nefarious Amanda. "She has been planning this for ages, so they have to face being a step behind for a while," Casey says. "There is a lot more asking the question, 'does the end justify the means?'"
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That question has been a plague ever since the good guys took over Division. What happens after Division has taken down Amanda and the Dirty 30? Do they keep it running, or shut it down?
"[Division] has too much power and not enough accountability," Casey says. "It's always on a slippery slope, and it always comes down to the morals of the people running it. So Fletcher now has a lot of power in his hands. Whether or not Division’s a good or a bad thing is fully dependent on his decisions."
And now that Division's one ally in the government is dead (thanks to, surprise surprise, Amanda), that slippery slope of using Division for good or evil has even higher consequences. "For the President, the only way to shut it down is to kill it, and kill everybody involved," Casey says. "As an illegal operation they could decide to go rogue and essentially become terrorists. It’s mutually assured destruction between the President and Division. [At] any minute they could decide to wage war on the other."
But the one thing keeping the uneasy alliance in check is the one thing they are working together to take down. "It’s like these two people who wished the other didn’t exist, battling against a common enemy," Casey says. "It’s the common enemy that keeps them both going. It keeps them allied. And that common enemy is Amanda."
So what do we think — should she die, or is Amanda's life too important for the rest of our heroes? Let us know in the comments below!
Nikita airs Fridays at 8 PM ET/PT on The CW.
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Made feature film debut as Young Dunstan in Matthew Vaughn's fantasy feature "Stardust"

Reprised role for "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader"

Starred in the title role in a film adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Dorian Gray"

Played a Russian who falls in with bad company after arriving in London in "Bigga Than Ben"

Portrayed Caspian in the film adaption of "The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian"

First TV role, a guest appearance on the U.K. series "Doctors"

Made theatrical debut at 15 as a member of the National Youth Music Theatre in "The Ballad of Solomon Peavy"

Summary

English actor Ben Barnes landed in hot water when he abruptly departed a London stage production of "The History Boys" in 2007 to take a role in a Disney film shooting in New Zealand. The decision may have not won him any accolades among the theater community, but it did wonders for his career - the role was that of Prince Caspian, the titular hero of the 2008 sequel to "The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" (2005), and the blizzard of publicity that preceded its early summer released virtually papered the globe with pictures of his face. The exposure catapulted the actor into worldwide attention, and generated more work in major motion pictures, including the third "Narnia" feature and an opportunity to romance Jessica Biel in a big-screen version of Noel Coward's "Easy Virtue" (2009).